Month: June, 2012

Most homeschooling/unschooling occurs for families with children in grades K-8, with the largest

segment being middle school (grades 5-8). Here are some ideas about what you can do with your children at home and in your community, as well as support and research for working with your children instead of working on them to help them learn.

On Learning Through Fantasy Play
Related books:

Child’s Work: Taking Children’s Choices Seriously by Nancy Wallace.How Children Learn (revised edition) by John Holt. Has great chapters on games, play, and fantasy, about how children use play to get into the world, not out of it.The Self-Respecting Child by Alison Stallibrass. Foreword by John Holt.Free at Last by Dan Greenberg and Mimsy Sadofsky.
Peter Gray’s Freedom to Learn blog for Psychology Today magazine.American Journal of Play, Spring 2011. A special edition devoted to children’s free play and edited by Peter Gray.

On Older Readers
Related books:

Educating Children at Home by Dr. Alan Thomas.How Children Learn at Home by Dr. Alan Thomas and Helen Pattison.Better Late Than Early, Raymond and Dorothy Moore.Reading Without Nonsense, by Frank Smith.Joining the Literacy Club by Frank Smith.